Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29

THE rumor that Ex-Governor jarvis On
North Carolina, who Is at present Minister
to Brazil, will resign and come home TO
compete with Mr.. Ransom for the United
States senatorship has been revived.
EDWARD HANLAN, the oarsman, has ar
rived at Sydney, N. s. w. His passage
was exceedingly rough, and he suffered
considerably from sea-sickness. He looked
very thin and worn. His arrival in Aus
tralia was without any demonstration Of
any kind.
SgE "anti- Yankee spirit is cropping
out bitterly in the tone of some of the City
of Mexico newspapers.
INFORMATION has been received at the
office of the Surgeon General of the Marine
! Hospital Service to the effect that the
yellow fever epidemic at Key West, Fla,
is practically at an end. No new cases
! had been reported during the week and
only one death had occurred.
THE attempt of two union sailors to COM
pei non-union man to stop work on the
barge Michigan, at Milwaukee, Wis, on
which Fred Pagel, one of the aggressors,
was shot, probably fatally, by Andrew
Bieme, one of the Michigan's crew.
ABOUT two hundred and fifty Anarch-
lists met in Cleveland, o., on the night Of
| the 22d and protested against the execu-
| ton of the seven condemned Chicago An
| archists. They spoke in German and were
| in favor of blood if ever ything else failed.
THE international conference at Carries
ruhe of the Red Cross Association was
opened on the 22d in the presence of the
Grand Duke Of Baden. Count Won Stol-
berg w ernigerode was elected president.
Mr.. Hubbel, Of America, is among the
vice presidents.
% %ho of
Evansville, Ind, was concluded on the
23d.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN's trial was begun at
Mitchellstown, Ireland, on the 23d.
GROvENHURST, Canadian village, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire on the
23d.
A STATE of anarchy is reported as exist
ing at Stanley Falls, in the Congo coun-
try.
GENERAL DODGE, General Fremont and
General Ewing testified before the Pacific
Railway Investigation Commission at
New York on the 23d.
WILLIAM SHOWERS, of Reading, Pa,
confesses to the murder of his two grand
children. He duplicates Betsey Sergeant,
his betrothed, in the crime.
JOHN KERNAHAN was hanged at San
Francisco on the 23d for the murder of his
sister-in-Iaw, Martha Ann Hood, in Octo-
Der, 1885.
ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
THOMPSON on the 23d purchased Govern
ment bonds to the amount of 81 1856, $50;
total purchased to date, $16,S95,650. The
applications for prepayment of interest
amounts to date to $95, e12, $50.
AT Middletown, O., on the 23d, John
Glendenning, while intoxicated, shot and
killed John Nolan and then shot himself,
dying an hour later. The cause of shoot
ing was an old grudge.
THOMAS MCKENNA, a laboring man
sixty seven years of age, brutality MUIR
dered his wife at their home in McKees-
port, Pa, on the morning of the 23d. She
was sleeping at the time. He first struck
her on the head with an axe and then
buried a knife in her heart.
JOHN M. SCHURLER, who murdered his
infant child at Binghamton, N. Y, two
years ago, was sentenced on the Odd to be
hanged at Cooperstown on November 10.
GENERAL JAMES B. RICKETTS,, the COM
mander of the famous Ricketts, battery,
died at his home in Washington ON the
22d, from the effects of wounds received
during the war. He served during the
Mexican and civil wars, and in the latter
organized the famous battery. He also
served on the Northern frontier during the
Canadian troubles during 1S39-40.
THE semi centennial fair celebration at
Lyons, N. Y, on the 23d, was accounted
the most marked in the history of the
place. The distinguished visitors includ-
ed United States Senator John Sherman.
After the procession Senators Sherman
and Hiscock held a reception at the Fair
grounds. A banquet was given to the dis
tinguished visitors by the business men of
the place in the evening.
MAX VEIL, twenty-seven years old, a
clerk, who had been boarding with Mrs.
Henrietta Schacke, in New York, invited
the landlady's son on the night of the
22d to go with him to the Lords supper
and meet the crowned heads of Europe
Mrs. Schacke, fearing that he was insane
had him arrested.
DR.. HAMILTON, Surgeon-General Of the
Marine-Hospital Service, says that the
arrival of single ship at New York in.
tested with Asiatic cholera need not give
occasion for alarm. In his judgment the
health officer at New York will be able to
handle the cases at quarantine without
difficulty.